Helpful Online Resources for Kids Stuck At Home

We are officially remote learning as of this week as I am sure many of you are around Australia and indeed the globe!

Our teachers have set up a schedule and for my Year 6 and Kindy child, this is fairly set in stone with flexibility allowed with things like PE, Art and Science. For my year 2 son, he has a schedule but is allowed to choose activities. 

Our schedules include maths and english in the morning, reading time, personal learning time and in the afternoon time for art, crafts, cooking, geography and music. 

We have been doing Reading Eggs and Mathletics for our Kinder and Year 2 school kids.

We have also been loving Cosmic Kids Yoga and I have been joining in with the kids each day and it has been a great way to exercise and spend time with the kids. 

Here is my list of go-to online resources which we have been using for our afternoon activities sessions: 

Online Resources for 0-3 years:

Kiddopia - this is an app that we love to use for our youngest as it has loads of early learning years learning for 123, ABC, colours and shapes. 

Eggy Words - by the same creators of Reading Eggs but this app is for the early learning years. 

Red Ted Art- a great site for easy arts and crafts for little ones

Khan Academy - an app for maths, computing and science for 2-7 year olds

123 Home School - we have printed out lots of colouring sheets and here is a great site that overs 300,000 FREE printables. 

Online Resources for 3-5 years:

Little Life Long Learners  -this is a great resource for early learning, printable games and pretend play printable cards set up Australian Casey Patch. Her e-books are also fantastic! 

Deer and Fawns - arts and craft ideas and activities for little ones 

Miss Patti personalised school readiness resources for children to help them learn all the skills they need to start school the easy and fun way.

Get Ready for School Australia - use code Benjamin15 for 15% discount (NB:I’m an affiliate)

Seussville - you can visit the world of Dr Seuss and all of his characters online with 

Khan Academy - app for maths, computing and science for 2 -7 year olds

Vooks - is an online platform for reading. It 'brings children's books to life with animated illustrations, read-along text and narrated story.' They are offering home educators a year's FREE subscription.

Tynker - online coding for ages 5+

Online Resources for 6-8 years:

Teach Starter - free 95pg course for primary school years. I'm printing and getting these bound into booklets for my kids to work through. These were recommended by a family member who is a teacher.

ABC Reading Eggs - an award-winning app that helps your child to read

Mathletics- an online maths program used in schools worldwide

Khan Academy - an app for maths, literacy and science for  2 to 7-year-olds

National Geographic Resources for Year K-2

Vooks - is an online platform for reading. It 'brings children's books to life with animated illustrations, read-along text and narrated story.' They are offering home educators a year's FREE subscription.

Switch Zoo - an online animal game or app where you can learn about animals through puzzles, memory games and even build a biome online. 

Climate Kids - created by Nasa this site covers topics like climate, energy, atmosphere and weather

Online Resources for 8-12 years:

Outschool - live online programs tailored to kids aged 3-18 with subjects like music, life skills, health, wellness, art, coding, languages and social studies. These are paid courses over video given by qualified teachers. 

Creative Bug - online programs with a section for kids where they can learn to sew, paint animals, learn how to draw manga characters, or create dream catchers. 

Kids Think Design - explores all things design - fashion, interiors, graphic, product and book design as well as animation and architecture. 

Discovery Education- from the Discovery Channel teaching math, STEM, social science and geography. 

Free Coding Course

Scratch - free creative online program teaching kids how to code and program interactive media such as stories, games, and animation.

BrainPop - an online resource that covers all curriculums including Science, Maths, English, Social Science and they provide videos of learning content. 

Zoos Victoria - this is a live stream of some of their animals! 

Explore 12 famous museums from around the world

And if you wanted to focus on a particular area like Maths, Science or Literacy, we have compiled these lists:

Science

Mystery Science - Free science lessons

Kids National Geographic - great resource from National Geographic with games, activites and resources  

Science Kids - online resource for science with games, facts, quizzes, and activities as well as lesson plans. 

Nasa - learn about Exoplanets

Mars  - explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover 

Maths

All sites listed below are a great online resource for math games and activities for school-aged children. 

ABCYA

Cool Math for Kids

Math Game Time 

Beast Academy

Prodigy Math Game 

Literacy

Storyline Online - favourite kids books which are read by famous people

Audible - are offering a selection of free kids audiobooks during Covid-19. 

Epic - this is a great app for kids under 12 and offers over 40,000 titles. They are offering 1 month's free subscription during Covid-19 and is free for school teachers. 

David Walliams is reading his books for free online. 

Scholastic Books has created a free learn-from-home site with 20+ days of learning and activities.

Teach Starter- free 95pg course for primary school years. I'm printing and getting these bound into booklets for my kids to work through. These were recommended by a family member who is a teacher.

Some of our favourite YouTube Channels:

Crash Course Kids

National Geographic Kids

I hope you have enjoyed this blog post filled with learning resources for online remote learning whilst we all stay indoors to help our countries battle the Coronavirus.

Please take care of yourselves and your families during this period. 

Drop us a comment below if you would like us to focus on a different area of play or learning on our future blog posts. 

We are all in this together!

Dong-Maria xox